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Islamabad, September 26: It's a story that's got all the makings of a huge political scandal. A rumoured romance between Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and the attractive and much-toasted foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, has got all of Pakistan talking. And it's reportedly prompted her husband to seek her phone details. Officials denied the affair, but some privately confirmed that Khar's millionaire

Kathmandu, September 23: An avalanche swept away climbers and their camps on the world's eighth highest mountain in northwestern Nepal on Sunday, killing at least nine climbers, with another four missing, police said. Five climbers were rescued. Police inspector Basant Mishra said the bodies of a German climber and a Nepali guide were recovered from the snow on the 8,163-metre (26,781-foot) Mount

Los Angeles, September 22: The US space shuttle Endeavour took its final flight, making a spectacular series of flypasts over California before landing in Los Angeles, its retirement home near where it was built. Riding piggyback on a specially fitted Boeing 747, the shuttle on Friday flew over San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge before heading south to take in the Hollywood sign and Disneyland

Islamabad/Karachi, September 22: Nearly 20 people were killed and hundreds injured on Friday when thousands of angry demonstrators during government-sanctioned protests over an anti-Islam film turned violent in several cities across Pakistan on a day being observed as ‘Love the Prophet Day'. The worst affected was Pakistan's financial hub Karachi, where 14 people were killed including two

Washington, September 21: The United States has paid Pakistani television stations to run advertisements featuring President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, hoping to soothe public opinion in a country hit by protests against an anti-Islam movie made in California, the State Department said on Thursday. The US embassy in Islamabad spent about $70,000 to run the announcement

New York, September 20: Five Indian-Americans, including Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and founder of IT major Syntel, Bharat Desai, have been named among the richest people in the US by Forbes, a list of 400 billionaires topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. See images Gates, 56, whose net worth grew $7 billion from a year earlier to $66 billion in 2012, topped the list for the

Kabul, September 20: After Taliban gunmen destroyed eight Harrier jets at a US camp in Helmand Province, the US military has suffered its worst air loss in one day since the Vietnam War. The Taliban attacked Camp Bastion, the main strategic base in southwestern Afghanistan, on Sept. 14, causing $200 million in damage in the single most destructive strike on a Western base during the war, according

Los Angeles, September 20: Boeing Co plans to deliver the first Dreamliner 787 made in South Carolina next week, a jet equipped with an engine model that recently experienced failures and has drawn federal scrutiny. The North Charleston-built jet, for Air India, is "ticketed" and certified by the Federal Aviation Administration, which means it is ready for delivery, a Boeing official said on

New Delhi, September 18: The Pakistan government has blocked popular video-sharing website YouTube for not removing a film made in the United States which mocks the Prophet Mohammad and has enraged the Islamic world. The website will remain suspended till the anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims, is removed. "Blasphemous content will not be accepted at any cost," Prime Minister Raza Parvez Ashraf

Washington, September 17: Taliban carried out the most destructive single strike on US and NATO forces in nearly 11 years of war in Afghanistan by attacking a heavily fortified base damaging eight fighter aircraft on the ground, ringing alarm bells in Pentagon. In the attack, 15 Taliban fighters in three tightly choreographed teams wearing American uniforms penetrated the Camp Bastion in Helmand